Dr Michael Stafford MD
Facet joint injections with cortisone have been offered as a treatment for mechanical low back pain for at least 60 years. More recently however, this practice has been becoming increasingly controversial on both clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness grounds.
This is a brief summary of the 2016 NICE guideline for the management of chronic low back pain
Primum non nocere – first do no harm. The first principal of medicine
Ever since my student days, when first introduced to the concept of sympathy versus empathy, I have to confess that I have never been able to fully and deeply grasp what these terms actually mean.
